PSYCH253 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Adolf Eichmann, Milgram Experiment, Fundamental Attribution Error
18 Jan 2019
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Social psychology : the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts and behaviours of individuals in. American soldiers in iraq and the stanford prison experiment. It"s not that we put bad apples in a good barrel. We put good apples in a bad barrel. Social psychologists focus on how people decide what and whom to believe, how they make inferences about the motives, personalities and abilities of other people and how they reach conclusions about the causes of events. Hannah arendt, eichmann in jerusalem, suggests that we are capable of brutality. Describes the trial of adolf eichmann (the architect of hitler"s plan) Suggests that eichmann that served with a resigned sense of duty. One of the most famous demonstrations of the power of situations. Participant was the teacher with a confederate as the learner . 80 percent of participants continued past the 150-volt level. A classic experiment by john darley and daniel batson (1973)
